Officials Deny Air Force One Sighting

[shooga]

...moments during President George W. Bush's secret flight to Baghdad, according to the White House, came when a British Airways pilot spotted Air Force One soaring over the Atlantic.

The mid-air encounter, which aides say nearly prompted the president to call off the trip, became an instant news sensation, memorialized by tourist pins which went on sale at a store in Crawford within hours of Bush's return to his Texas ranch.

But days after the sighting, the identity of the pilot remains a mystery, even to British Airways.

An airline spokeswoman said this weekend that no crew member had come forward to report the unusual encounter, as is standard practice.

Bush aides recounted with excitement the moment during the flight to Baghdad when the BA pilot thought he spotted the president's blue and white Boeing 747 from his cockpit...

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/01/bush.pilot.reut/index.html

[papau]

1. 700 pilots plus the controllers around London - and no one heard

- except Karl Rove and Bush - and they would not lie to us.

[UpInArms]

9. but they had to lie

'cause they already had their buttons made -

remember profits come before the truth here

[MercutioATC]

12. 700 pilots?

Where were they?

[JailBush]

2. If George Bush, Inc. could pull off the September 11 Attack on America,

surely they could easily fake a trip to Baghdad. Merely covering up the truth about 9/11 dwarfs a simple phony flight.

[zbdent]

4. Wonder how much some wealthy Texans paid to wear

"camouflage" army uniforms for a "photo-op" with the flight-suit codpiece.

[shooga]

8. Highest TREASON in history of the country...

...after turning on TV to see the burning tower after the first plane hit the WORLD TRADE CENTER our attention was arrested like all others. When the second plane hit the second tower we all said WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?

When the 3rd hijacked plane hit the PENTAGON, the first witnesses reported the "plane circled the PENTAGON in a sharply banked 270 degree turn that was distinctly different than any commercial plane and more like a military plane" and bypassed a straight in shot at the offices of the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF only to hit an insignificant spot in the back of the PENTAGON. I said to myself then, IT IS NOT A REAL TERRORIST ATTACK!!

One hour after the second plane hit a CIA analyst on ABC announced that it was Osama bin Laden who was behind the attacks!

When on the first day it was announced that terrorists left a flight manual for the BOEING 757 written in Arabic in their rental car parked at LOGAN AIRPORT I said THIS LOOKS LIKE PLANTED EVIDENCE REMINISCENT OF THE FAKED PHOTO OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD WITH THE RIFLE USED TO KILL THE PRESIDENT IN ONE HAD AND THE COMMUNIST NEWSPAPERS IN THE OTHER THAT WAS USED TO CONVICT OSWALD IN THE MINDS OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

When the passport of the alleged lead terror pilot, Mohammed Atta, was found in 2 feet of rubble 2 blocks from the WTC I said WHO DO THEY EXPECT TO BELIEVE THAT!! Then they expected us to believe that Atta packed a bag for his suicide flight and by some good fortune it did not make his flight. To top it all off the baggage contained a suicide note. Then bin Laden makes a confession on video tape and leaves the tape where it is found. And the gullible American public buys it all primarily because it is unchallenged by the entire mass media...

...compelling reasons to indict Daddy Bush, Cheney, the PENTAGON and the CARLYLE GROUP for the real terror behind 911. Daddy Bush and Cheney were in the SITUATION ROOM at the WHITE HOUSE during the terror attacks (during the 34 minutes between the second WTC hit and the PENTAGON hit while a stand down order was issued to the AIR FORCE to supersede established intercept procedures for planes that stray off course)...

...Bush was reading stories to grade school children during the attacks. He knew one plane had crashed into the WTC when the reading started. When his top aid Andrew Card whispered in his ear about the second plane hitting the WTC this was caught on videotape and is widely available on the internet. Junior Bush only looks up and nods and then goes back to reading stories to the kids for 25 more minutes!! It clearly looks more like Card is informing Bush of an expected event. There was for example no time for Card to add AND THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER HIJACKED PLANES IN THE AIR.

The Director of the WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM where all military crises are managed is with Junior Bush at the grade school. At the end of the 25 minutes of reading Bush goes immediately to the library of the school where a press conference was set. He says there I CALLED MY VICE PRESIDENT AND MY FBI DIRECTOR AND THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. This was a lie!! There was not enough time for that.

It takes $5 million to make the minimum investment in CARLYLE GROUP, the defense contractor investment group whose stock has gone up 37% since 911. The friends of Bush and Cheney are the other investors in CARLYLE GROUP along with the bin Ladens and John Major.

CARLYLE GROUP was having their international investors conference in Washington D.C. at the RITZ CARLETON at the exact time of the 911 attacks. CARLYLE GROUP had a big interest in BIOPORT a company that was the sole source of ANTHRAX VACCINE for the PENTAGON. BIOPORT gave Admiral Crowe, the former Chairman of the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF a 27% interest in the company for his pull with the PENTAGON... connect all the dots regarding the ANTHRAX ATTACK ("Ames" strain of the virus) that was traced to US military sources?

[UpInArms]

3. this is so revolting

that I am just nauseated

Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad captivated people in Crawford and tourists, who came to its tiny downtown to buy up mementos of the trip.

Large pins featuring the president's plane and the BA pilot's words -- "Did I just see Air Force One?" -- were sold out by mid-day Saturday.

heading for the antacid

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Take another antacid or two before you ask yourself...

...the question:

"When were the pins designed, developed and ordered, and how soon did they know"?

[UpInArms]

6. almost as quickly

as all the little flag decals appeared in all the service stations across the entire country after 9/11

or was I the only one who noticed that they "magically" seemed to appear and get stuck on everything that moved?

[frank frankly]

7. I understand when people plan on leaving for Canada

I really really do.

Those buttons were made before the trip.

[shooga]

10. THE QUESTION THEN IS - - -

- - - HOW DID THEY GET PAUL (JERRY) BREMMER SECRETLY TO THE STATES TO PULL THIS OFF??

[frank frankly]

11. I think he went there, the rest is bullshit

just my opinion

[neuvocat]

13. Someone answer this question for me please:

what is the big deal if Air Force One was seen by a commercial pilot?

[truthisfreedom]

14. the big deal is NOT that air farce one was seen...

the big deal is that in typical rovian fashion, the administration made up a story that added more tension to the plot line by claiming they were spotted by a pilot of British Airways who nearly caused them to have to turn around and come home, but now we seemingly have proof that the administration's exciting story of fear and trepidation was in fact, fiction.

[VolcanoJen]

15. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=247700

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
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